There is some confusion as the whether the Awe gets a new account credit as well. The linked page (and VM's Deals page) actually shows a credit for the Awe, whereas the promo T&C says that it does not. People have heard different stories from VM about whether the Awe is part of the promo.

...in addition, the Awe DOES get you $35 back from topcashback, making this net $10 in your pocket!

$20 is cheap for unlocking AT&T phones. for AT&T iPhones, usually looking at $40 and up. but recently got my iphone unlocked for $20. the good old days of $5 unlocks for AT&T phones were great a while back, but if you don't want to keep waiting forever for prices to come down, then you got to pay somewhat more than you want but hope it's not way too much.

Yeswap do you have any insight or know anybody at Motorola? I've been waiting for months for them to drop the price on the GSM version Moto G. Seeing as Motorola is the only one that sells the GSM version then looks like I and other interested people will have to keep waiting longer. Now that the new versions of X and G are coming out soon do you think the original G will ever go down to $99 or less?

Careful with Virgin. I placed an order using the coupon code and it showed a total of around $26 (with tax). Than after I put in my CC number I got a confirmation invoice for $41. I called in to ask what happened and they said the coupon code "didn't go through". Through what? They didn't know. Meanwhile the preauthorization on my credit card is only for $26. So something is messed up here.

I have a request for Dennis.A post listing which MVNO branded phones will work on other MVNOs and on which ones and also list which branded phones won't work on other MVNOs like Cricket and MetroPCS phones. I don't mean listing each phone model only the MVNO brand.

Cricket and MetroPCS are not MVNOs, they are brands of AT&T and T-Mobile respectively. Unless unlocked, MetroPCS phones only work on MetroPCS and Cricket phones only work on Cricket.

Very few true MVNOs sell branded phones, most like Brightspot and PTEL just sell phones branded by and locked to the MNO they run on.

The other MVNOs that I'm aware of having branded phones are:

Walmart Family Mobile phones - locked to T-Mobile GoSmart and Consumer Cellular phones - probably locked to T-Mobile and AT&T respectively but I don't know that for a factKroger i-Wireless only work on i-WirelessThe TracFone owned MVNOs; Straight Talk, TracFone, NET10, Telcel America and PagePlus. Except for some Straight Talk phones that work on PagePlus, I don't think any of the TracFone companies' phones work on any other operator, not even a different TracFone brand (TracFones don't work on Straight Talk or vice versa, etc.

MVNOs are not going to publicize that their phones will work on a different operator, we only find out if they do when someone tries it and shares the results

I see that Fry's is offering free in-store activation for Ptel of any unlocked GSM phone/device which Fry's states they normally retail for $15.99. In addition, Fry's will also throw-in a free $5.00 Fry's gift card and a free SIM card.

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